Most respectfully, I hear
Most respectfully, I hear your frustration sir, but as the, not years, but weeks and months come along, your excuses are becoming thinner and frankly edging toward lame as these charging networks are putting up droves of additional stations across the country, some of them for cars that don’t even have the technology yet, that in a year or two they will.. “It takes way too long to stop every couple hundred miles and charge up.“ You wrote. This is an example of how we can’t make everything for everyone to make them completely happy. Some may say you should be grateful, that the cars have enough ranges for you to stop for that “every couple of hundreds of miles” to recharge. Some say, A 300+ MILE RANGE IS TO MUCH! Electrify America will take care of your “it takes too long for supercharging” issue with their super fast supercharging features. Just make sure that the real electric car you next get has fast supercharging capability. I don’’t know what a “it takes way too long” timeline is for you, but it is there that we need to address this problem that I often write about on social media and in these articles, pardon the capitalization: GET THE GASOLINE REFUELING DYNAMIC OUT OF YOUR HEAD WHEN IT COMES TO RECHARGING A BEV. We really need to reset and rethink what it means to refuel an electric car, and as the largest producer of oil in the world next to Saudi Arabia, Big Oil is not going to let any charging stations near their gas pumps, besides the fact that’s too dangerous. I bet a lot of you PHEV owners are thinking about this for you to be waiting for this to happen, and that will never happen, never. You really do need to take out your phone and use a charging station map app to find the nearest or cheapest or fastest or whatever station to refuel your electric car. This is about comfort level, well, GM just took off the training wheels. VW also will soon. It’s grownup time and we need to move this merry go round along. It is about ZERO emissions, not low emissions. You may not think so, but you’re ready. I suggest renting an electric car for a week or a month and see how you fare. In fact that would make a great feature story I could publish here. Let me know if you’re invested!